# Avinash Lal

> Computer Scientist | Harvard ‘18 | YC S19

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/avinash

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer (Acquired by Thomson Reuters) @ Noetica AI
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States
Employee #2: Built and scaled core product, infrastructure, and data systems from pre-revenue to acquisition in under 3 years

### Founding Software Engineer @ Zeta Surgical
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Boston, MA
- Employee #2: Co-Created the fastest, most accurate human scan to human scan alignment algorithm, surpassing leading operating room technology with 10 times the accuracy and 1000 times the speed
- Reimagined serially executed algorithms with the use of CPU and GPU parallelization, reducing run times by a factor of 100
- Directed design and implementation of complex user interface delivering 50% under budgeted time and 90% under budgeted cost
- Conducted user interviews, workflow analysis, hazard analysis and risk assessment to define comprehensive software requirements that satisfy user needs and safety concerns
- Software integration of robot API’s including: KUKA, UR, ABB, Doosan
- Software integration of 3D camera API’s including: Photoneo, Intel, Microsoft, Orbec, Northern Digital Inc., Ensenso,
- One of a four-person company that increased company valuation by 20-fold and raised 5.2 million dollars

### Project Manager @ NYC Department of Education
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Migrated Application processing infrastructure home to hundreds of vendors and thousands of applications into survey monkey
- Automated multi-stage application process incorporating relevant tags to accelerate review process 10- fold
- Sourced catering, venues, programs for events of more than 100 people

### Project Manager Internship @ Internal Revenue Service
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Assisted with redesign and relaunch of IRS website
- Tackled thousands of bug fix tickets related to text errors in automated website port
- Completed Project Management course 
- Assisted in refinement of parallelized web crawler in Microsoft Excel (VBA) using regular expressions

### Web Developer Internship @ Kynplex
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Harvard University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Advanced Regents Diploma
Brooklyn Technical High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avinash-lal-097b40127

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Source: https://flows.cv/avinash
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/avinash/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-20